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Jonathan Purtle

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Associate Professor of Public Health Policy & Management

Director of Policy Research at NYU’s Global Center for Implementation Science

Professional overview

Jonathan Purtle is Associate Professor of Public Health Policy & Management at the New York University School of Global Public Health and also Director of Policy Research at NYU’s Global Center for Implementation Science.

Dr. Purtle is a mental health policy researcher and implementation scientist. His work examines questions such as how the implementation of policies “on the books” can be improved in practice, how research evidence can be most effectively communicated to policymakers and is used in policymaking processes, and how social and political contexts affect mental health policymaking and policy implementation. He is also studies population-based approaches to mental health, suicide prevention, and novel financing models for mental health services—such as earmarked taxes and fees.

Dr. Purtle’s work has been consistently funded by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) and Robert Wood Johnson Foundation (RWJF). He is currently leading a NIMH-funded project focused on financing policies related to the 988 Suicide & Crisis Lifeline (R01MH131649), a NIDA-funded study (through the CHERISH Center, P30DA040500) that is analyzing social media data to identify audience segments of state legislators who conceptualize substance use issues in different ways and experimentally testing different ways of communicating evidence these legislators, and co-leading a NCI-funded study focused on cancer policy implementation strategies (R21ACA293319). He is also a co-investigator on projects focused on mental health and health care system resilience following disasters is Puerto Rico (R01MD016426) and Hawaiʻi (R61MD019939).

He has published over 170 peer-reviewed journal articles, is an Associate Editor at Implementation Science, Co-Chairs the Policy Advisory Board at Psychiatric Services, is on the Scientific Advisory Committee of the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention, and is Core Faculty of the NIMH-funded Implementation Research Institute. 

Education

BA, Psychology, Roger Williams University
MSc, Sociology, Universiteit van Amsterdam
MPH, Drexel University
DrPH, Drexel University

Publications

Publications

A regional analysis of healthcare utilization trends during consecutive disasters in puerto rico using private claims data

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Causal Loop Diagrams of Food Systems, Diet, and Obesity : A Scoping Review of Methods, Contextual Factors, and Outcomes

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Changes in Specialty Crisis Services Offered Before and After the Launch of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline

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Court-mandated redistricting and disparities in infant mortality and deaths of despair

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Disparities in willingness to call the police in a 2023 survey of US adults : Implications for alternative crisis response programs

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Evidence for Public Policies to Prevent Suicide Death in the United States

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Preferred Sources For Suicide Prevention And Crisis Services Among Segments Of The US Adult Population

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Review of Emergent Financing Models for Mental Health Crisis Systems

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State Parental Consent Law and Treatment Use Among Adolescents With Depression

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The 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline in the US : status of evidence on implementation

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The effect of caregiver opinion leaders to increase demand for evidence-based practices for youth anxiety : A cluster randomized controlled trial

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Use of the 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline at National, Regional, and State Levels

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A Mixed-Methods Exploration of the Implementation of Policies That Earmarked Taxes for Behavioral Health

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A Tale of Two Taxes : Implementation of Earmarked Taxes for Behavioral Health Services in California and Washington State

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Acceptability and feasibility of policy implementation strategies for taxes earmarked for behavioral health services

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Demographic variation in preferred sources for suicide prevention and mental health crisis services among U.S. adults

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Design considerations for developing measures of policy implementation in quantitative evaluations of public health policy

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Impact of U.S. Federal Loan Repayment Programs on the Behavioral Health Workforce : Scoping Review

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Maui Wildfire and 988 Suicide and Crisis Lifeline Call Volume and Capacity

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Measuring variation in infant mortality and deaths of despair by US congressional district in Pennsylvania : a methodological case study

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Methods and measures to evaluate the impact of participatory model building on public policymakers : a scoping review protocol

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Multi-level alignment processes in the sustainment of a youth substance use treatment model following a federal implementation initiative : A mixed method study

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Operational and organizational variation in determinants of policy implementation success : the case of policies that earmark taxes for behavioral health services

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Policy dissemination and implementation research

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Proportion of US Counties and Population Served by Certified Community Behavioral Health Clinics

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Contact

jonathan.purtle@nyu.edu 708 Broadway New York, NY, 10003